Yanagawa Nobusada was a designer of
ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...
Japanese woodblock prints
Woodblock printing in Japan (, ''mokuhanga'') is a technique best known for its use in the ''ukiyo-e'' artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (160 ...
in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
who was active from about 1822 to 1832. His teacher,
Yanagawa Shigenobu
was a Japanese artist in the ukiyo-e style. He was active in Edo from the Bunka period onward. His Osaka period dated from 1822 to 1825. In Edo, he resided in Honjo Yanagawa-chō district. He was first the pupil, then son-in-law, and finally ...
, gave him the name Yanagawa Yukinobu. A print from 1823 records the latter's name change from Yukinobu (雪信) to Nobusada (信貞).
References
* Keyes, Roger S. & Keiko Mizushima, ''The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints'', Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art,1973, 271.
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Lane, Richard. (1978). ''Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
OCLC 5246796* Ujlaki, Peter, Woodblock Prints, Faux Zen Kabuki, ''
Daruma Magazine
''Daruma Magazine'' was a quarterly English language magazine published in Amagasaki, Japan and devoted to Japanese art and antiques. It was published by Takeguchi Momoko and edited by author Alistair Seton. It commenced publication in 1993. In ...
'', No. 60, 53, 2008.
Ukiyo-e artists
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